Subspecies Sminthopsis crassicaudata centralis Thomas, 1902

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• Sminthopsis crassicaudata centralis Thomas, O. 1902. Two new Australian small mammals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 10: 491-492 [492].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 2.9.8.7 ♂ skin & skull, Killalpannina (as Killalpanima, Lake Eyre East), SA.

  Type locality references:

  Finlayson, H.H. 1933. On mammals from the Lake Eyre Basin. Part 1. - The Dasyuridae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 195-202 [197].
• Sminthopsis crassicaudata ferruginea Finlayson, H.H. 1933. On mammals from the Lake Eyre Basin. Part 1. - The Dasyuridae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 195-202 [199].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA M3495 ♀ spirit specimen with 6 young, Macdonnell Range, NT.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, open heath, open scrub, predator, subtropical, tussock grassland, woodland.

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